A shariah court in Lancashire some time ago approved a request that people should be subjected to a multiple honour killing.This story is included in a plug for a book about an actual murder in Pakistan, but the author, Martin Sixsmith is a well known investigative journalist and there's no reason to disbelieve him. His book is Ayeshas' Gift. (No, not the infant bride Ayesha.)

The Muslim council of elders, or Sharia court, listened intently as the plaintiff outlined his case. He’d been disrespected by a neighbour, he told them, and in such a small Pakistani community, people talk.As atonement for that disrespect, the neighbour had agreed to the plaintiff’s demand that their children would marry each other. But when the neighbour’s children objected to the idea, he reneged on that promise.The plaintiff before the makeshift court was therefore demanding retribution.The price for that broken promise was clear, he argued: his neighbour’s recalcitrant children had dishonoured him as well, and what’s more, they were consorting with white people.As they were already promised to his own children, that constituted adultery: they should pay with their lives.The council of elders deliberated, then issued their judgment.He did, indeed, have the right to exact the death penalty on his neighbour’s children, the court ruled. It would be merciful if he would negotiate financial compensation in lieu of their death, but he was not obliged to do so.

If you think that sounds positively medieval, you’d be right. But this happened just a few years ago — not in Pakistan, but here in Britain, in a small town in Lancashire.

Jailed paedophiles yell Allahu akbar as they are led from courtMembers of a paedophile gang shouted Allahu akbar in court yesterday as they were jailed for raping and abusing girls aged 11 and 13 after giving them cannabis and alcohol.<snip>The girl reported the offences when she was 12 but no action was taken, Sarah Drake, for the prosecution, told the court.

The men’s crimes came to light only when South Yorkshire police began investigating the sexual exploitation of young girls in Rotherham in 2014 after an investigation by The Times.

Oh dear, not only was the meat not halal, it was from the wrong animals!

A meat company duped restaurants into buying cheap turkey which they marketed as halal lamb, a court has heard.Dutch Bangla Direct Ltd allegedly sold more than 100 tonnes of turkey to takeaways and shops who thought they were buying red meat at a competitive price.A court head how the firm paid between £1 and £1.50 per kilo for the meat - which was not halal-certified - which they then sold as lamb for between £4.75 and £7 per kilo.It is alleged the scam - which prosecutors say was discovered during the horse meat scandal - netted the now defunct meat wholesaler company £250,000 in profit. The firm's boss Mahmudur Rohman, 46, has now gone on trial with three other men at Leicester Crown Court.They are accused of conspiring to defraud customers by making false representations about the type of meat being sold between 2013 and 2014.Today, during the opening of the trial, jurors were told food tests discovered turkey DNA in dishes which were supposed to be lamb.

The Lib Dems have alerted the police after messages sent to some Muslim voters in Stoke-on-Trent suggested they could go to hell if they failed to vote Labour to keep out Ukip’s Paul Nuttall.

The anonymous message, distributed locally to some in the Muslim community by text and Whatsapp, called for people to vote Labour so as not to help “enemies of Islam”.

It said voting for the Lib Dem candidate, Dr Zulfiqar Ali, a Muslim, could help “far-right, anti-Muslim, anti-Islamic Ukip party” take the seat, which is being contested in a byelection triggered by the resignation of Labour MP Tristram Hunt.

It is not known how many people received the message, but the Lib Dems claimed it had been “distributed in large numbers” in support of the Labour candidate, Gareth Snell.

The Lib Dems demanded an apology from Labour on Thursday in a letter to the party’s election agent, copying in the police and Stoke returning officer.

Ian Horner, the Lib Dem election agent, wrote: “I am sure that you realise that the religious nature of one of these messages could also be deemed to be covered by the ruling on ‘undue spiritual influence’ in the matter of a mayoral election for the London borough of Tower Hamlets held on 22 May 2014, when the Labour party were the victims of such tactics.”

The LIb Dems are up in arms because an anonymous message urges local Muslims to vote for the Labour Muslim rather than the LibDem Muslim. From the cirumstances, it would seem that they're concerned lest people vote for the wrong party, rather than about religious interference in an election.I wonder what action the police will take? The same as if a text message had gone round the churches urging people to vote UKIP or Conservative to keep the Labour Muslim out?

"If a woman passes one kilometer from someone who is praying, is the prayer canceled then? What is the maximum distance from which a prayer is cancelled altogether?" Majid Oukacha

Two Police Officers Part of Alleged Asian Drug Ring Charged With Corruption OffencesTwo police constables, based at Perry Barr Police Station in Birmingham, have appeared before magistrates on corruption and drugs charges. They formed part of an eight-strong, all-Asian group, all facing similar allegations.Local media reports that Police Constable Wahid Husman, 47, faces four counts of conspiracy to commit misconduct in public office, two counts of conspiracy to steal, conspiracy to possess Class A drugs with intent to supply and conspiracy to possess Class B drugs with intent to supply.Police Constable Tahsib Majid, 35, faces a count of conspiracy to commit misconduct in public office, two counts of conspiracy to steal, conspiracy to possess Class A drugs with intent to supply, conspiracy to possess Class B drugs with intent to supply, and unlawful disclosure of personal information under the Data Protection Act.

Headteacher is forced to work from home following death threats from Muslim parents over her 'offensive clothes' amid fears there is a 'Trojan Horse' plot to 'Islamicise' the schoolTrish O'Donnell, of Clarksfield Primary School in Oldham, has been threatened She has endured 'harassment and intimidation' by conservative Muslim parentsIt is feared they are making a 'Trojan Horse' attempt to Islamicise the schoolFurious parents have complained that the way she dresses is 'unsuitable'

A primary school headteacher has been forced to work from home by death threats from Muslim parents who hate her western values.Trish O'Donnell, head of Clarksfield Primary School in Oldham, has endured 'harassment and intimidation' in the form of 'aggressive verbal abuse' and 'threats to blow up her car' from parents pushing conservative Muslim ideals.It is feared they are making a 'Trojan Horse' attempt to Islamicise the school.

Parents have complained the way she dresses is 'unsuitable' and that pictures of her daughters in her office are 'offensive'. The school is mostly filled with Pakistani pupils who do not speak English as a first language. A section of its website titled British values only reads: 'coming soon'. Since becoming head in 2006, Mrs O'Donnell has taken the school Ofsted rating from needing improvement to good.<snip>The council report says the school's 2013 parent-governor Nasim Ashraf hosted 'Islamic teaching sessions' at the school while his wife, Hafizan Zaman, 'made remarks to Asian staff members that they should be wearing a veil and covering their heads'.They took exception to Hindi music being played in class, were angered by sex education and were accused of intimidating staff and undermining the headteacher.The report said they tried to mobilise parents to 'secure changes at the school to reflect their interpretation of Islam' but did not suggest they were involved in the violent threats. Ashraf's sister Shasta Khan is serving eight years in jail for plotting to attack Jews in Manchester.

Imams are to be encouraged to deliver their sermons in English under measures being prepared to rid Britain of hate preaching.

The Telegraph has been told that the counter-extremism taskforce is working on the plans amid concern that preaching in foreign languages enforces divisions between Islam and mainstream British society and can foster radicalisation.

Ministers have been inspired by some Middle Eastern countries that have begun urging that sermons be published in English online. A senior Government source said: “If imams are speaking in another language it makes it far harder to know if radicalisation is taking place.”

Measures are being prepared for the long-awaited counter-extremism proposals after an initial strategy was published in October 2015. Exact measures are yet to be finalised but one source said tougher licensing rules for foreign preachers was being considered.

Currently, imams from outside the European Union who visit Britain have to prove they can speak English before a visa is granted. However, sources have ruled out the introduction of any new licensing scheme for imams already in the UK because it could be seen as a curb on religious freedom.

Tackling radicalisation in Britain was one of Prime Minister Theresa May’s priorities during her six years as Home Secretary. A speech she gave before the 2015 general election set out a series of “bold” measures that could be adopted in order to counter home-grown extremism.

“Everybody in our country is equal and everybody is free to lead their lives as they wish. But our society does not just confer rights; it demands responsibilities,” Mrs May said back then.

“You have the freedom to live how you choose to live – but you must also respect the freedom of others to live how they choose to live.”

She also promised a “step change” in helping people to learn in English and she hinted at tighter language rules on “foreign religious workers in pastoral roles”.

Debate about whether imams, who lead prayers at mosques, should use English has been making headlines for more than a decade. A survey of 300 mosques in 2007 found that just 8 per cent of imams were born in the UK and only 6 per cent of them spoke English as a first language.

The Tory 2015 election manifesto promised to “confront and ultimately defeat” extremism and make protecting Britons their “overriding priority”.

The document pledged to “tackle all forms of extremism, including non-violent extremism, so our values and our way of life are properly promoted and defended”.

The Conservatives’ 2015 counter-extremism strategy has yet to undergo formal consultation amid reports that wrangling over how to define extremism has held up the process.

In 2016, David Cameron called for more imams to speak English to help guide young Britons away from the “poisonous rhetoric” of Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant.

He said: “When I was sat in a mosque in Leeds this week one of the young people there said how important it is that imams speak English because if you have got young people, sometimes who speak English themselves but not Urdu and not Arabic, they need someone to guide them away from Isil and their poisonous rhetoric.”

He said: “That’s why we’re going to be targeting money at people, very often women, who’ve been stuck at home, sometimes by the men of the house. Speaking English is important for all, imams included.”

A Government spokesman said: “There are no plans to license imams or require imams to have a minimum level of English language proficiency beyond visa requirements already in place.”

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Judge rules boy must be taught in Islamic faith school against wishes of fatherA father who described himself as an “Anglo-Saxon” atheist has lost a legal battle to prevent his ex-wife from sending their son to an Islamic secondary school.

The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said he follows no particular faith and wanted his son to have a secular education.

His ex-wife, who is Muslim, had chosen a private Islamic boys’ school for her son, but the father described the institution a “school inside a mosque” and claimed he would be “marginalised” by his son if he were to attend the London-based school from next year. Representing hi, barrister Zimran Samuel said the mother and father have “different world views”, adding that it was his wish for his son to be educated in a “neutral” environment.

It was likely that similar cases would appear increasingly often in family courts, he added.

A High Court judge rejected the father’s attempt to appeal a family court ruling.

UK Show Trial only days away - media ablaze!... except it isn't ablaze: the only place I'd seen this news was on Gates of Vienna. Perhaps it's fake then? We shall see.

Islam v Free Speech —The Political Show Trial of Tim BurtonTim Burton of Liberty GB faces trial on 27 March 2017 for satirical emails sent to Tell Mama Muslim organisationCharge of ‘Religiously Aggravated Harassment’ could put him in prison for two yearsTell Mama Director, Fiyaz Mughal, is an adviser to Crown Prosecution Service, which decided to prosecute the caseTell Mama advises the police on ‘Islamophobia’, even though the organisation’s statistics were found to be fraudulent

On Monday 27 March 2017, one of the most important political show trials of the century is taking place at Southwark Crown Court in London.

Tim Burton, a member of the Executive Council of the political party Liberty GB, is being prosecuted for sending five satirical emails, employing mockery and ridicule, to Tell Mama UK, an organisation run by the prominent Muslim Fiyaz Mughal OBE.

Fiyaz Mughal has declared himself to be harassed and distressed by the satirical emails, sent by Mr Burton in response to a job advertisement for a caseworker on the Tell Mama website in April 2016.

At one point in the emails, Tim Burton referred to Mr Mughal as “the Mendacious, Grievance-Mongering Taqiyya-Artist-In-Chief of Tell Mama UK”. Taqiyya is part of the Islamic doctrine of deceit, divinely sanctioned in Islam’s ‘holy book’, the Quran — a doctrine that tells Muslims they may deceive non-Muslims if the goal is to advance the cause of Islam or to prevent the denigration of Islam in the eyes of non-Muslims.

The Metropolitan Police and Crown Prosecution Service complied with alacrity to Mr Mughal’s request to have Tim Burton charged and prosecuted for Religiously Aggravated Harassment — a charge which on conviction can result in a substantial fine or a long prison sentence.

Fiyaz Mughal sits on a panel that advises the Crown Prosecution Service on how to prosecute cases of so-called ‘Islamophobia’.

His organisation Tell Mama UK works closely with the Metropolitan Police to deal robustly with the wave of ‘Islamophobia’ that is supposedly sweeping the country and terrorising the Muslim community.

We venture to suggest that a non-Muslim making a comparable complaint about a Muslim would have been laughed out of the police station or the courtroom, at the very least told to stop wasting police time.

Fiyaz Mughal was called out by Andrew Gilligan of The Daily Telegraph in June 2013 for (allegedly) fraudulently manipulating so-called ‘hate crime’ figures of Tell Mama UK in the wake of the Lee Rigby murder in order to maintain his taxpayer-funded grant. Following this exposure, Tell Mama UK was investigated and temporarily had its funding withdrawn. Strangely, no charges of fraud were ever brought by the police or CPS.

I am not aware of any Christian suicide bombers. I am not aware of any major Christian denomination that believes the penalty for apostasy is death. I have mixed feelings about the decline of Christianity, in so far as Christianity might be a bulwark against something worse.”Richard Dawkins

I am not aware of any Christian suicide bombers. I am not aware of any major Christian denomination that believes the penalty for apostasy is death. I have mixed feelings about the decline of Christianity, in so far as Christianity might be a bulwark against something worse.”Richard Dawkins

There are many overlapping reports on the web of a BBC programme in which one of the candidates for Mayor of Manchester (a new post for a large area with many powers akin to those of the London mayor) speaks for a minute about his manifesto. The claim is that, being from Pakistan, he chose to deliver his speech only in Urdu and the BBC dubbed it in English.

It's not clear whether this is correct: his lips seem a bit out of synch with the words, but the only other sound besides the male English voice is a woman speaking what might be Urdu in the background, who is much further out of synch. Could it be that he had a heavy accent to the BBC chose to "voice over" his speech while someone else translated into Urdu in the background for a different broadcast? Is it a disgrace, or just another example of the Beeb's carelessness?

Police Helicopter Deployed, Karaoke Machine Confiscated After Song Mocking Bin Laden Played at Party

A British police officer was moved to activate her panic button after taking offence at a parody song making fun of former Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden being played at a garden party, bringing in serious re-enforcements to a small English village.

The officer pressed the panic button on her body-mounted camera after being dispatched to a garden party in a picturesque Cambridgeshire village at around 10pm on Thursday and overhearing a song being played that mocked Osama Bin Laden. Responding to the call for help, the local force dispatched another ten officers and a police helicopter, Cambridge News reports.

It is alleged that in addition to the parody song making fun of the dead terrorist, party-goers were also shouting “anti-Islamic abuse”, a suggestion the partygoers deny.

I am not aware of any Christian suicide bombers. I am not aware of any major Christian denomination that believes the penalty for apostasy is death. I have mixed feelings about the decline of Christianity, in so far as Christianity might be a bulwark against something worse.”Richard Dawkins

A white five-year-old girl was forced to live in Muslim foster homes where nobody spoke English and her carers took away her Christian cross and encouraged her to learn Arabic, it emerged today.

The child, who is a native English speaker, spent the past six months in two Muslim households after being placed into foster care in Tower Hamlets, east London.

Local authority reports describe how the little girl sobbed and begged not to be returned to her niqab-wearing carer’s home, telling a social worker: ‘They don’t speak English.’

Her mother offered to send her back from a home visit with her favourite meal - spaghetti carbonara - but the girl said it was banned because it contained bacon - which Muslims do not eat.

And more recently the girl told her that ‘Christmas and Easter are stupid’ and that ‘European women are stupid and alcoholic’, according to The Times.

The reports detail how the child was ‘very distressed’ and claimed the foster carer had removed her Christian cross and encouraged her to learn Arabic.

The two placements were made by the scandal-hit Tower Hamlets borough council against the wishes of the girl’s family.

Local authorities are required to give due consideration to a child’s religion, racial origin and cultural and linguistic background’ when placing them into a foster home.

The girl’s mother is said to be horrified by the circumstances her daughter has been placed in.A friend told the newspaper: ‘This is a five-year-old white girl. She was born in this country, speaks English as her first language, loves football, holds a British passport and was christened in a church.

‘She’s already suffered the huge trauma of being forcibly separated from her family. She needs surroundings in which she’ll feel secure. Instead, she’s trapped in a world where everything feels foreign and unfamiliar. That’s really scary for a young child.’

The girl lived with her first carer, who is believed to have worn a niqab outside the family home, for four months. Her current carer wears a burka, which covers her face entirely, when she is out in public with the child.

In April this year, an Ofsted inspection at Tower Hamlets council found ‘widespread and serious failures in the services provided to children who need help and protection’.

The council’s children’s service was rated as inadequate and found to have an ‘entrenched culture of non-compliance with basic social work standards’.

The Department for Education said: ‘When placing a child in a foster home, the local authority must ensure that the placement is the most appropriate way to support [the child’s] welfare. A child’s background is an important consideration in this decision.’

A council spokesman said: ‘We are unable to comment on individual cases. In every case, we give absolute consideration to our children’s background and to their cultural identity. All our foster carers receive training to ensure they are fully qualified to meet the needs of children in their care.’It’s not the first time Tower Hamlets has been embroiled in scandal. In 2014, a leaked government report suggested the mayor Lutfur Rahman had links to Islamic extremist groups, including one seeking to set up a Sharia state in Europe.

In 2011, it was reported a 31-year-old Asian woman who worked in a local chemist’s had received death threats for refusing to wear a veil, even though she was not a practising Muslim.